Alfred Hitchcock vs David Bowie
Two child prodigies, compared on what is actually documented: field, era, country and record. No invented numbers.
The record, side by side
| Alfred Hitchcock | David Bowie | |
| Field | Film | Film |
| Sub-field | Screenwriter | Actor |
| Born | 1899 | 1947 |
| Died | 1980 | 2016 |
| Country of birth | United Kingdom | United Kingdom |
| Star sign | Leo | Capricorn |
Who they are
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1899, in Leytonstone, a quiet district of east London, to a greengrocer and his wife. He was a shy, overweight child who found that stories — their architecture, their capacity to generate unease — interested him more than almost anything else. His father once sent him to the local police station with a note, and the duty officer locked him in a cell for five minutes as a lesson in what happens to naughty boys. Hitchcock later described this as the defining trauma of his life, the…
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David Bowie
On June 6, 1972, a twenty-four-year-old Brixton-born musician named David Robert Jones — performing under the name David Bowie, inhabiting a character he had named Ziggy Stardust — appeared on the BBC television programme Top of the Pops to perform "Starman," draped his arm around his guitarist Mick Ronson's shoulders in a gesture that was, for British television in 1972, practically avant-garde, and stared directly into the camera. The performance reached approximately fifteen million viewers. Within a week, the Ziggy Stardust album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was…
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What they share
- Both are held here under Film.
- Both born in United Kingdom.
- Their lifetimes overlap.
Where they part
- 48 years separate their births (1899 and 1947).
Questions people ask
- Who came first, Alfred Hitchcock or David Bowie?
- Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was born in 1899, David Bowie in 1947.
- What field is each of them in?
- Alfred Hitchcock is filed under Film (Screenwriter). David Bowie is filed under Film (Actor).
- Were they contemporaries?
- Yes - their lifetimes overlap.